The Snyders revealed Thursday, via a press release, that they were the owners of the clock, which has been sitting in an outlot near its former home since 2016.

The plan from the twin brothers – who at one point managed Putt Putt courses near Levee Plaza in West Lafayette and near the Tippecanoe Mall in Lafayette – is to make the Hour Time clock part of a project called Lafayette Raceway, a family fun park with an outdoor go-kart track, miniature golf, laser tag, batting cages, arcades and a golf simulator.

The Snyders say they are using crowdfunding to raise money for the project, which will be built in stages. The first pieces, they say, will be ready by summer 2018.

Those plans have been circulating for months, including that the clock would be connected with a new Hour Time sports pub, wine bar and bakery café.

But the next mystery: Where will it be?

That wasn’t clear Thursday. A description at lafayetteraceway.com says it will be “just minutes from Interstate 65 on a main north-south thoroughfare on the east side of the city.”

Mark Snyder declined to provide additional details when contacted by the J&C.

The Hour Time clock had been a Lafayette landmark since 1979.

Roy Meeks, owner of the hotel at the site, bought the clock at an auction in Los Angeles in 1977 with hopes of making it a focal point of the new upscale restaurant he was building next to his hotel at Interstate 65 and Indiana26/South Street.

Buy Photo

In this photo from 2016, Roy Meeks, former owner of the Best Western hotel, discusses the history of the iconic clock above the Hour Time restaurant at 4343 South Street in Lafayette. Meeks said the clock was placed above Hour Time restaurant in 1979. Meeks said the clock was built in Leicester, England in 1910. The clock was once above the Rochdale train station, also in England.(Photo: John Terhune/Journal & Courier)

Built in 1910 in Leicester, England, the clock featured four 12-foot faces and weighed seven tons. It originally sat on top of a train station in Rochdale, England.

As Meeks tells the story, when the clock arrived, it was in boxes and bags. But he had already turned down an offer to sell the clock to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! so he enlisted the help of crews from Kettelhut Construction, who pieced the clock together in time for the opening of the Hour Time in 1979.

The Hour Time closed in June 2016 to make way for a DoubleTree Hotel, which opened in late 2017.